Well, I think I'm getting in under the 6 year deadline that I set myself last time. In terms of update, family is doing pretty well, world is gone mostly to shit. I'm still assistant medical director at Exeter ER, having managed to dodge the director bullet that Nick Armellino took. I heard that in napoleonic times, during battles the bullets would travel slowly enough that you could see them coming, but because everyone was standing in rows like a bunch of assholes, if you ducked, that just meant the dude behind you would get it, which was considered the height of ill manners. But that's what I did to Nick. I did manage to get the EMS director gig, which is a much cushier job. Max is about to turn 13, in 7th grade, in hybrid school with Minecraft taking up as much of his free time as possible. Willa is about to graduate from 5th grade, and go to Heronfield Academy next year, which is $25K better than the free public school. Sam is in 1st grade, but is becoming feral so may not continue on. After school he disappears into the woods without shoes, and shows up around dinner with mud caking his bare feet and small animals nesting in his long hair. Most of the sweetness has been replaced with ferocity, but there are still traces that peek out from time to time. 

Covid has upended everything, although we just got word that kids can go back full time to school after April break, for the last few weeks of the school year. What an absolute clusterfuck remote learning is! I'm vaccinated, and my parents and in-laws have each had their first shots, but the rest of the fam is still waiting. Just had a mass shooting of Asian women a few days ago, and Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd is in jury selection. So race issues are boiling over. Maybe in a good way, in the sense that the high water mark includes a lot of mainstream white moderates this time around. But also exhausting to see how far we still have to go. The Capitol riot is still fresh in mind, too, which I guess is related to race issues since there was an explicit white supremacist component as opposed to the typical implicit one. But we got Trump out of there, by the skin of our teeth, and flipped the Senate. Now we just need to get rid of the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, and we'll be off and running- maybe get some real good done. 

I'm ready to cash out and start a seaweed farm, but I guess I have to soldier on until at least our student loans are paid off. That'll be 10 more years- just refinanced last week.